Never, under any circumstances, take a laxative and a sleeping pill on the same night." - Dave Barry

Today, while watching a recorded episode of "Inspector Morse" (PBS) I learned a new term. "Billet doux" (billay-doo) is French for love note.

I understand parking lot fender benders, but how do two giant ships run into each other? It's not like either one of them can suddenly swerve into the other. They can't suddenly do anything.
[Note the adjectival, suddenly, vs. the common "all of a sudden." If you can have all of a sudden what's part of a sudden? (pet peeve)]

We left at 6:15 and drove to one of our favorite b'fast joints in Harrisburg, 30 miles north of us. Don't know if the medium traffic was people headed to work or to the zone of totality, but I think it was the latter because 90% of the cars took turnoffs for Corvallis where the campus of OSU was deemed to be prime viewing turf.

The BACON wasn't nearly as good as we've had there before. Still good (it's BACON), but what they used to serve was outstanding.
The interior has been completely remodeled since we were last there and now has a classic car theme with what's called automobilia all over the place.
Turns out there's a connection between the remodel and the average BACON.
One of the waitresses, a 30-something Hispanic gal we've had before, is super sweet and sat down at our table for a bit of a visit. (We felt complimented that she felt that comfortable enough with us to do that.) She told us she'd worked there for 5 years and the owner-wife recently died. The owner-husband decided not to carry on and sold the place to the new owners three months ago. Our waitress said they were like family to her and she was sad to see him make that decision. The new owners have a restaurant background and have plans for this place that include adding dinner service instead of just b'fast and lunch.
"Do you like them or do you wish you had the old owners back?" Long pause...no answer.
Then she said, "I'm the only one left; all the other girls quit."
The people are the best part.

From there to the city park in Halsey (pop. 904), 10 miles further up the road. We were joined by about 40 other groups - couples and families - either sitting in the grass or in camping chairs like us. Pam and I read our books while we waited for the eclipse to start, watched through totality, and left shortly after the sun began to emerge. We didn't have any significant traffic coming home, either.

The eclipse was very cool and we're glad we drove up there. From what I've read online there was a big difference between the 99% we'd have had here and the totality we saw. Totality didn't last long, maybe only a minute, because we were right on the edge of that zone.

We could feel the temp drop, the automatic lights around the park came on, and people clapped when it went total.
We got home about lunchtime and agreed it was a fun adventure and well worth the minimal effort to see it in totality.

I did 3 miles this afternoon. It was about 83 and it felt every bit of that. Got home and looked at my schedule to see I should have done 4 miles. So, do I add to tomorrow's to catch up? I'll leave about 10 a.m. and see how I feel. My training won't fail or succeed based on one mile worth of difference this week.